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Don't Skip the Café raced at Suffolk Downs in East Boston until Emma Brady found and pursued the mare.

Her lost & found horse returns to her at last

“I’m sorry. The mare you wanted was shipped to Pennsylvania. There was nothing I could do.” The words so cold and final, appearing as a text message from the racehorse trainer, hit young Emma Brady hard as she sat down and cried. “I couldn’t believe it,” she says. “I got this text the day before I was supposed to get papers for Don’t Skip the Café and make it official. She was supposed to be my first horse. And just like that, she was gone.” Don’t Skip the Café Barn name: Skip Sire: Skip to the Stone Dam: Café Latte, […]

Honor Jean, who is now named Swiss Miss, bravely tackled water and ditches with "no drama."

Something royal was just waiting in a field

Ashleigh Rauen plotted a path to a field in Washington where her dream horse grazed, unnoticed. A treasure hunter seeking hidden gems, she sped toward her destiny. Following bloodlines as guideposts, she had done her research, and knew by heart which great Thoroughbreds had produced talented sport horses. And through word-of-mouth clues, eventually made her way to a scraggly looking mare whose heart beat, she says, with the blood of past champions: Damascus, Honor Grades, Danzig and even Secretariat’s mom, Somethingroyal. “I bought my mare for two reasons: good bloodlines and a gut feeling,” says the 29-year-old professional rider from […]

Silver Flash, who heads to Pine Top this month as he goes advanced, had humble beginnings as a leftover horse at the end of the 2008 Suffolk Downs meet.

A TB nobody wanted is an emerging star

A pale gelding so humble he once went begging off the track, and who later was passed over and dismissed by top riders as “reckless” and “lacking in movement,” was recently named by Eventing Nation as one of eight emerging stars. Silver Flash, a hard-knocking ex-racehorse who left Suffolk Downs at the end of the 2008 meet when a Georgia horseman paid $600 for him out of the goodness of her heart is today prepping to take his young owner/rider of four years, Abby Hamblin, across the ditches and fields at Pine Top Advanced CIC ** on Feb. 19. Silver Flash Barn […]